Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Abetment to suicide - Quashing of charge - From perusal of FIR, suicide note and report u/s 173 Cr.P.C., no ingredients of offence punishable u/s 306 IPC are made out - No evidence or positive act to suggest that petitioners abetted deceased in any manner to instigate him in committing..........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Death - Second appeal - No second appeal can be filed challenging the award...........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Death - Merely because Act is a welfare legislation, it will not entitle appellants to file separate appeals challenging same award on various grounds - Each ground of challenge will not provide a separate cause of action for challenging the award...........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 32, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, Arms Act, 1959, Section 27 -- Dying declaration - Murder of wife by husband - Gunshot injury - Deceased stated that `Inhone Mujhe Mar Diya' - Word `Inhone' points to her husband, as Hindu ladies do not refer their husband by names, they devised an easiest expression to refer them as `inhone' - Deceased..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, Arms Act, 1959, Section 27 -- Murder of wife by husband - Gunshot injury - Accused is a dead drinker and used to quarrel with deceased and beat her after taking liquor - He killed deceased when she was preparing food in kitchen - Disclosure statement made by accused leading to recovery of weapon in presence of witnesses duly proved on..........
Employee's Compensation Act, 1923, Section 30 -- Appeal - Order awarding compensation - Death of employee - Commissioner rightly decided all material questions arising in case properly on the basis of evidence adduced by parties and rightly determined compensation which was affirmed by High Court - Concurrent findings of fact of two Courts below are binding on Supreme..........
Employee's Compensation Act, 1923, Section 4A(3) -- Interest - Compensation - Death of employee - Commissioner committed error in awarded interest to respondents @ Rs.12% p.a on awarded sum from the expiry of 45 days from date of order that too if appellant failed to deposit the same within 45 days - Order of Commissioner modified to the extent that awarded sum shall carry..........
Constitution of India, 1950, Article 136 -- Special Leave Petition (SLP) - Death sentence - Where SLP filed in cases in which death sentence is awarded by Courts below, it should not be dismissed without giving reasons at least qua death sentence...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376(2)(f), 302, 342 -- Rape and murder - Death sentence - Rarest of rare case - Deceased was last seen in the company of accused - Dead body of deceased found in the house of accused - Medical evidence corroborated the prosecution version - Prosecution proved its case - Accused rightly convicted - However, case does not fall in the category..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 302 -- Rape and murder - Death sentence - Accused has no criminal history - No blameworthy conduct depicted by accused in jail - Case does not fall in category of rarest of rare cases - It would be in interest of justice if death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment - Life imprisonment should be with a cap of 20 year R.I, which..........
